<p>Martha Stewart used to use a lot of robin’s egg blue, as I recall. Don’t know if she still does, but I think it was a shade that was easy to live with. Doesn’t Lowes carry a Martha Stewart line? You could check out the color there and, if you like it, find a match in the brand of paint you prefer.</p>
<p>edit: I just did a quick search. I am not coming up with that line at Lowes, just evidence that was there earlier.</p>
<p>aha! found it! dateline 3/23/:
*1. Martha Stewart Living Paint has finally arrived at The Home Depot! There are 280 Martha-approved colors and a foolproof color key system to help you choose hues.*I’m not a big Martha fan, but I do enjoy a research challenge.</p>
<p>I am going to show this to my mother today and she will be excited to look at all the great ideas. Once she picks a room colour, we will need to find a transitional bathroom colour as the entire remainder of the house is a sort of light sage green and you can see the bathroom walls from the hall, so that room will need to be light enough to coordinate.</p>
<p>I like that blue called “Lichen” in the Farrow and Ball Colours. (It’s pretty much the periwinkle I’d had years ago. It looked terrific with greenish bamboo furniture.)</p>
<p>This thread is interesting. S’s room is “just barely” blue…in fact, we’ve lived in our home for more than 13 years, and about 6 months ago, he finally agreed that is WAS, in fact, blue and not white. We painted it ourselves as the house was built, so H and I were absolutely sure it is blue. Obviously our family is color-challenged. When I hear people talk about blue, with a hint of green, I get very confused. </p>
<p>Anyhow, S has decided that he would like to paint his walls a DARKER shade of blue, and we’ve been going back and forth on the shade. He’ll be away in April for a 10-day trip to France - he’ll be there for his birthday. So for a b-day present for him H and I were thinking we cold paint while he was gone. So I am REALLY trying to understand the descriptions of blue in this thread, and pick something we would all like.</p>
<p>I have a light blueish color in the hall and den area…it’s called Drenched Rain by Dunn Edwards and I love it. I picked it by painting poster board–this is not the color I would have chosen in the store. I saved a small square of the poster board to carry around for color matching.</p>
<p>I just redecorated D2’s room and we used C2 paints (low VOCs). The room itself is a pumpkin/reddish color called Bonanza. The closet/sitting room walls are a deep blue–Muscari. Here’s the link to C2 paints. We’ve also used the Benjamin Moore Aura paints (also low VOCs) for repainting the master bedroom. Here’s the link to the C2 colors:[C2</a> Paint Color Palette](<a href=“http://www.c2color.com/color-tools/colorPalette.php]C2”>http://www.c2color.com/color-tools/colorPalette.php)</p>
<p>It has been a few years since we painted, but I had a hard time finding a blue that I liked. Our painter wanted to use Benjamin-Moore but after several samples, I gave up on them for blue. The company that seemed to have the most blue colors was Kelly-Moore (which may be a regional brand, I don’t know.)</p>
<p>You have to try out paint in the room. There was a lovely buttery yellow we picked out when I was an interior designer - it looked great in the office and went with the fabrics, but in the room it turned green and looked dreadful. I think the light that came through the window bounced off too much stone. I don’t think anyone can tell you on line what blue to use - the right blue is the one you like.</p>
<p>We have a very pale almost white blue in our TV room that has high ceilings that are white.
Just enough contrast between the two.
Very very ‘beachy’, that’s why I think I love it so!</p>
<p>Pretty sure it is ‘white satin’ by Benjamin Moore.</p>
<p>Mathmom, I agree about trying it out in the room, the lighting makes a huge difference. I used to have a yellow living room I called it “white house yellow” it was Benjamin Moore but I don’t remember the color. I must have tried out 6 or 7 different yellows until I had the right one and it was great!</p>
<p>I have a room that is Benjamin Moore Alpaca, which is a warm type of tan. Then the accents are a rich navy. It really looks nice, without being too blue.</p>
<p>I have benjamin moore moonlight - a really delicate yellow in our master bedroom with blue/green bedding and draperies. We keep touching up the paint and staying with the colors because they are very pleasant to live in.</p>
<p>A note on Benjamin Moore. Love the colors but our painter says it has dropped in quality. He matches the color in porter paint and I do find it holds up longer.</p>
<p>This is such a good thread…I have painted every room in our house over the 11 years we’ve lived here – except the master bedroom. I think this will be an excellent Empty Nest Project!!!</p>
<p>I like the Benjamin Moore colors. But the paint? Not as much as before. Unfortunately, the formulas used to convert colors from one paint to another are not foolproof. So…after you have used the color samples from one line (e.g. BM) to pick a color, I suggest that you just buy the first gallon from the paint house you like best and then test that. (I’ve been using Graham paints.)</p>
<p>I prefer to use “green” paints with low VOCs. I’ve used Aura (made by Benjamin Moore) and C2. Are there any others with low VOCs that folks have used and would recommend? In a moment of madness I started a painting project–three bedrooms (all of which were a boring off-white and hadn’t been painted since we built our house 7 years ago).</p>